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[ramAnag]

I believe he won't serve anymore time according to reports.

It is disgusting but I'm not one to subscribe to the view that immigrants are treated more fairly.

I think there has always been a disparity in justice handed out.

Not sure what the answer is, he definitely should be serving more time.

Agreed, there always has been disparity between judges, and juries for that matter, imo. Without knowing more it’s difficult to comment but I certainly agree that the sentence appears over lenient.

As regards the woman who encouraged arson and murder, I have absolutely no sympathy. Look at the consequences of what she advocated. There are too many individuals hiding behind a keyboard and getting away with comments that range from the hurtful to the downright subversive and dangerous. They need to realise that there is a price to pay and the sooner the better imo.

[Andy_Faber]

As regards the woman who encouraged arson and murder, I have absolutely no sympathy.

I think you're possibly in a minority on that one, not for the fact she received a punishment, but the length of it. It feels to me like the speed and extent of the process was politically motivated from start to finish as a warning to folk who don't want to 'tow the line'. Compare to the glacial pace of consideration of a public figure inciting, with premeditation, an audience of millions to 'kill'

[ramAnag]

I think you're possibly in a minority on that one, not for the fact she received a punishment, but the length of it. It feels to me like the speed and extent of the process was politically motivated from start to finish as a warning to folk who don't want to 'toe the line'. Compare to the glacial pace of consideration of a public figure inciting, with premeditation, an audience of millions to 'kill'

Perhaps I am, AF, which bothers me not one jot.

Understand your comparison with, I presume, Bob Vylan. I don’t applaud the way he/they behaved but when you compare their behaviour with the actions they were protesting about it really does pale into insignificance. Perhaps people should be more outraged about starving children being murdered in Gaza than they apparently are about a punk band kicking off about it as part of their performance.

Where Lucy Connolly is concerned, let’s not forget who she is and what she said. Indefensible imo, and nothing at all to do with ‘toeing the line’, unless the line you refer to is applauding arson and murder…which I doubt.

[swaledale]

Perhaps I am, AF, which bothers me not one jot.

Understand your comparison with, I presume, Bob Vylan. I don’t applaud the way he/they behaved but when you compare their behaviour with the actions they were protesting about it really does pale into insignificance. Perhaps people should be more outraged about starving children being murdered in Gaza than they apparently are about a punk band kicking off about it as part of their performance.

Where Lucy Connolly is concerned, let’s not forget who she is and what she said. Indefensible imo, and nothing at all to do with ‘toeing the line’, unless the line you refer to is applauding arson and murder…which I doubt.

I agree RA, if half the faux rage about a pop star's rants was directed at what is actually happening in Gaza, there might be a point.

Whilst Vylan did make some unpleasant some of which were anti semitic comments, (though death tot he IDF wasn't) they have been misrepresented (quelle surprise) in certain media, the Daily Fail being one of them. Apparently though 45,00+ being killed is nothing to get outraged about!

If people believe the conspiracy theories being trotted out over Lucy Connolly's sentence, then I feel sorry for them, unable to distinguish what's a genuine issue and what's manufactured by certain right wing politicians and media to suit their own agenda.